"Cough, cough..." Director Zheng coughed twice and shouted with a dark face: "We are in a meeting, yelling and screaming, what are you doing!"
Hearing this, the scene of chaos immediately fell silent. Everyone looked at Director Zheng and blushed.
"Zhou Xing is a super genius. He even wrote a paper on the level of artificial intelligence's 'Binary Criteria and Variables', and then he broke through the 5-nanometer etching machine mass production process. Now he can continue to break through the photolithography machine. There is no need What a fuss!" Director Zheng saw someone supporting Zhou Xing and said:
"Director, regarding the project bonus, do you plan to...?" Lin Jieming looked at Director Zheng thoughtfully and asked:
"Talents are rare, and geniuses are even rarer. Project bonuses are of course used to buy bones." Director Zheng smiled slightly, looked at everyone and pointed out:
Spending more than 20 million yuan to buy "Bone" is too heavy a price!
Hearing this, the conference room fell silent.
"Why, do you think it's inappropriate? If Zhou Xing can make a breakthrough in the field of lithography machines... Don't such talents deserve our attention?" Director Zheng's face darkened, and he looked at everyone and asked:
Faced with Director Zheng's questions, no one at the scene made a sound.
The silent scene lasted for more than ten seconds. Lin Jieming suddenly broke the silence and asked: "Director, is that nanoscale lithography machine that Zhou Xing is developing?"
"5 nanometer level!" Director Zheng looked at Lin Jieming with a flash in his eyes.
As soon as Director Zheng finished speaking, there was a gasp of cold air in the venue.
This Zhou Xing is too ignorant of "the sky is high and the earth is high"! Did he research the 5-nanometer lithography machine
The lithography machine technology currently mastered by China is still in the stage of upgrading from 64 nanometers to 45 nanometers and impacting on 32 nanometers. Even the technology accumulation of the world's most advanced lithography machine giants is still at the 16 nanometer level and has fallen into the technology below 10 nanometer level. A quagmire with no way out.
Zhou Xing is developing a 5-nanometer lithography machine and has made some progress.
is that a lie!
Director Zheng actually believed such ridiculous news.
What should they say
Facing Director Zheng's convinced gaze, Lin Jieming smiled bitterly and said tactfully: "Director, it's still two questions whether Zhou Xing can break through the photolithography machine project... How about we distribute the bonus for the paper first, and wait for the bonus for the etching machine project first? He has made a breakthrough in the lithography machine, how about distributing it together with the lithography machine project bonus?"
"Yes! Director Lin's suggestion is a good one!"
"That's right, the project bonus is not not paid, it's just that it will be paid later."
"Director, Director Lin's arrangement is very suitable! The two project bonuses add up to over 100 million."
“…”
Lin Jieming's words were immediately approved by everyone, and they all praised him for his shrewdness and calculation, and the project bonus of tens of millions was saved.
How can a 5nm lithography machine break through casually? What's more, for a student who is less than twenty years old, it is simply whimsical!
If Zhou Xing is really allowed to develop a 5-nanometer lithography machine, then international chip giants will pay tens of billions of dollars in equipment costs to lithography machine manufacturers every year, and China will spend more than 200 billion U.S. dollars in chip import payments every year. It became a joke.
Hearing this, Director Zheng felt very tired. He wanted to slap the table again and continue to have his own way, but the opposition from everyone was unexpectedly strong, and his confidence was not as strong as before.
How can a genius like Zhou Xing be guessed by you, the icing on the cake, and the icing on the cake and the timely help
Zhou Xing didn't bribe him when he was not yet successful in developing the lithography machine. After he developed the lithography machine, would he still be satisfied with the bonus
Director Zheng glared at everyone and reluctantly compromised: "I hope you won't regret it!"
"Director, you are joking. Why don't you just postpone the project bonus? Zhou Xing can understand. Let's discuss how much paper bonus we should give him!" Seeing that Director Zheng no longer insisted, Lin Jieming laughed and accepted the offer. Changing the topic:
"Well, let's set the prize for this paper at 1 million! After all, Zhou Xing has contributed to our school's reputation in the international academic community. We can't be too stingy." Director Zheng sighed and said solemnly:
"It should, it should! Classmate Zhou Xing has brought glory to the school!"
"Yes! The impact factor of the paper has reached a new high."
“…”
Hearing this, everyone nodded happily.
The one-million-dollar paper prize was approved unanimously with no objections.
After all, most of the project bonuses have been suppressed by them. If the paper bonuses are not generous, the school will lose its face! Classmate Zhou Xing has made two great contributions to the school in a row!
The meeting continues, discussing issues, receiving reception from superior leaders, tracking project progress...
Zhou Xing, who was busy drawing, had no idea that a bonus that originally belonged to him had been "delayed."
Even if he knew, would Zhou Xing care
It’s only more than 20 million, which is just a drop in the bucket compared to the technical value of a 5-nanometer lithography machine.
After in-depth research and development of lithography machines, no one understands the value of lithography machines better than Zhou Xing.
Lithography machine manufacturing integrates cutting-edge knowledge from physics, optics, chemistry, materials science, precision machinery, precision control, engineering... and other disciplines. If it were not for the virtual laboratory and the assistance of Zhou Xiaozhi, Zhou Xing would have developed The 5-nanometer lithography machine manufacturing process is simply a wishful thinking.
A simple calculation of the experimental materials, research and development equipment, wear and tear instruments, and consumables used in the virtual laboratory shows that there are tens of billions of dollars that cannot be obtained. This result still depends on Zhou Xiaozhi's assistance.
The exposure light source used by the lithography machine has wavelengths divided into: ultraviolet, deep ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet regions.
The 5-nanometer lithography machine must use a light source in the extreme ultraviolet region. The light source in this region belongs to the blind spot of human technology. In order to overcome this light source technology, Zhou Xing absorbed a lot of knowledge with amazing efficiency, and cooperated with Zhou Xiaozhi’s powerful computing power to simulate Calculation capabilities, after more than 40 days and nights of research, overcame all difficulties, and used a unique method to obtain the core light source technology of the 5-nanometer lithography machine.
The core light source technology has been won in the virtual laboratory. Now it will take a month to draw the drawings of this core component at Zhou Xing's electronic drawing speed.
Zhou Xing estimates that a 10TB hard drive will be enough to store the electronic drawings of this core component.
Zhou Xing "gnashed his teeth" as he operated the computer to draw circuit diagrams, thinking about other ideas in his mind.
This 5-nanometer lithography machine project will produce hundreds of advanced patents. However, the role played by the school laboratory is pitiful. This time, the school must not simply be cheapened.